Week of May 20th

Important Dates to Remember:

• Friday, May 24th - Half Day: Dismissal at 11:40 
• Monday, May 27th - No School: Memorial Day
• Friday, June 7th - Field Day 
• Wednesday, June 12th - Mini Society Market Day 
• Friday, June 14th - Half Day (Last Day of School) 

FLE lessons will be taking place next week.  I'm missing several permission slips from students. Please remember that if I do not have a signed permission slip on file, your child will not be able to participate in the lessons.

NWEA:  We're working on the Reading NWEA today and I'll have those results for you in Friday folders this week.  The kiddos worked really hard this year and made so much growth!  I'm so proud of them!

Mini Society Update: We're full steam ahead with our Economics unit.  All students have turned in a plan to me stating what product they are planning to produce and what types of materials they need.  The Prototype Design is due this Thursday so please make sure your child is prepared to bring in ONE type of each product they are planning to produce as well as a completed prototype sheet.   If your child asks you or a member of the family for help with the production of their products, please remember that you do not work for free.  You need to negotiate some sort of payment with them whether it would be helping out our around the house, helping out with dinner, etc.  I have offered to help kids laminate products and make copies but they are paying me with the money they are earning in the classroom. Over the next few weeks, we're going to be learning about goods, services, wants, needs, scarcity and more!  This will be an exciting month of learning for us!

Math: We just finished up Unit 7 in Math. This unit focused very heavily on word problems and problem solving strategies.  We have made so much progress in this area this year!  I'm very impressed with how the students tackle these types of problems and set up their problems using a number model!  I'm currently correcting unit 7 math tests and they will be placed in Friday folders this week.  We have just started our last unit of the year!  In this unit, we'll be doing a review of number stories, fractions, decimals, and measurement concepts.

Language Arts: In Writing, we're finally wrapping our research papers and we have a few things to accomplish in writing over the next few weeks.  We'll be putting this information into a Google slide show and sharing it orally with the class. Then, we'll be doing some work with Literary Essays to round out the year.

In Reading, we have been having great conversations about our books!  In addition to talking about the events of the chapter, we have been working on skills such as making connections, making inferences, digging deeper into the text, and theme.

We're also continuing to work on nonfiction reading skills as well.  We'll continue to work on skills such as analyzing informational text, finding information to support our answers, and finding the main idea.  Over the next few weeks, we'll also continue working on text features and text structures.